Bamboozled!

Fish taco night was Friday--did I mention how incredibly tasty they were??!!! I'll post the mango salsa recipe soon, so look for that. The true trick to tastiness is a lightly bread the white fish - I like tilapia - gently fried in vegetable oil, not olive oil. Anyhoo--because we have some leftovers fit for a Mexican meal, I decided to indulge Daughter #2's request for fajitas. We sandwiched a meal of chicken parmesan in on Saturday in order to take advantage of some leftover spaghetti, but the Duffy fam does like Mexican!

I have uncooked chicken left over from last night and picked up some beef at a great price. More mango for more salsa and an avocado and tomatoes for Daughter #1's fave--homemade guacamole (recipe is posted, but you'll have to scroll down a bit).

Unfortunately, my great deals were undone by the fact that I, along with my daughters, got bamboozled by the "attention all Kroger customers...we have a free gift for any adult shopper now in front of the deli counter." Suffice it to say, there was a free gift--albeit small--followed by a demonstration of a "new" cooking gadget which you could buy for 40% off--ONLY today. Yeah, right. Well, I was ready to move on, but the Daughters got caught up in the hoopla, and then I got caught up in theirs. Now we are owners of some sort of 'chop-o-matic' that promises to make culinary magic at the slightest of ease in under 2 minutes. We'll see. For now, it's being hidden from Hubby-Bubs in the pan cabinet. He'll never find it there.

In any case, I'm certain the fajitas will be super yummy. I plan to entice Hubby-Bubs with a couple of beers and a game of cards (letting him win, of course) before I bring out the new "fandangled" chopper so that when he says, "When did we get that?" I can play off the "Oh, this old thing?" relatively well. Hopefully when I make salsa and guacamole in under 5 minutes, all will be forgiven.